On February 28, 2001 a 6.8 magnitude earthquake shook parts of Western Washington for almost a full minute. The quake hit at 10:54 a.m. It caused upwards of $4 billion in damage, and about 400 people ...

In northeast Ethiopia, the rift shoved continental plates apart by 25 feet in just a few days, completely shocking ...

Sean Penn always knew that rescuing Jacob Ostreicher from his years of Bolivian imprisonment would be difficult. Ostreicher, ...

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More than 1,400 microearthquakes shake Tenerife in 14 hours and trigger scientific alert in Las Cañadas del Teide.

Caribbean leaders opened a four-day summit Tuesday in the Federation of St. Kitts sand Nevis, where the message was unified cooperation rather than divisions. .

China's foreign aid strategy has shifted in the last few decades Now its model may be the one the U.S. is adopting even as ...

The Texas sky will treat San Antonio to a total lunar eclipse next Tuesday morning, with the entire sequence visible locally, weather permitting.

Pat Riley and Erik Spoelstra are on opposite sides over one oddly persistent issue in the NBA: what coaches wear on the sideline.